As Amended by House Committee
Session of 2025
HOUSE BILL No. 2238
By Committee on Appropriations
Requested by Representative K. Williams
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AN ACT concerning legislative staff agencies; relating to duties and
functions of the legislative research department and legislative
administrative services; directing legislative administrative services to
be responsible for the preparation of committee minutes; amending
K.S.A. 46-1210 and 46-1212a and repealing the existing sections.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 46-1210 is hereby amended to read as follows: 46-
1210. (a) There is hereby established the legislative research department
whose head shall be the director of legislative research and who shall be
appointed by the legislative coordinating council to serve under its the
direction of the council. The director of legislative research may be
removed from office by a vote of five (5) members of the legislative
coordinating council taken at any regular meeting of such council. The
director of legislative research shall receive such compensation as is
determined by the legislative coordinating council. Such director, and any
of his or her such director's assistants specified by the legislative
coordinating council, shall receive expenses and allowances for in-state
and out-of-state travel as is provided by law for members of the
legislature. Such director shall appoint such assistants and employees of
the legislative research department as are authorized by the legislative
coordinating council and shall set their compensation subject to the
approval of such council. Such director and all assistants and employees of
the legislative research department shall be in the unclassified service.
(b) The legislative research department shall perform legislative
research functions and such other duties as are directed by the legislative
coordinating council.
(c) The legislative research department shall provide staff services to
all meetings of special committees, select committees, joint committees
and standing committees meeting when the legislature is not in session,
and to the extent possible, accomplish the following:
(1) Assist each committee chairman chairperson in planning the work
of the committee, and in accordance with the chairman's chairperson's
instructions prepare an agenda for each meeting.
(2) Appropriately notify committee members, staff and other
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interested persons of meeting times and other information as directed by
the committee chairman chairperson.
(3) Prepare minutes of each committee meeting to show attendance,
disposition of agenda items, tentative and final committee decisions and
staff instructions, and such other matters as may be helpful to the work of
the committee.
(4) Prepare and present research information in accordance with
committee instructions or instructions of the committee chairman
chairperson.
(5) Obtain attendance of persons for committee presentations or
testimony. In cases of compulsory process, work with the office of revisor
of statutes and office of attorney general to obtain satisfactory results.
(6) Prepare interim reports of committee work when the same is such
reports are requested of a committee by the legislative coordinating
council. Any such report shall have committee approval before
transmission.
(7) Prepare a final a committee report in accordance with committee
instructions; the same to. Such report shall include relevant information,
committee policy recommendations, and to the extent possible, appropriate
bill drafts prepared by the office of revisor of statutes.
(8) Receive and analyze agency requests for appropriations and
prepare fiscal information for appropriate legislative committees.
(d) Special committees, select committees and standing committees
are expected to shall utilize the foregoing such staff services to the extent
the same are as available in making all studies.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 46-1212a is hereby amended to read as follows: 46-
1212a. (a) There is hereby established the division of legislative
administrative services whose head shall be the director of legislative
administrative services and who shall be appointed by the legislative
coordinating council to serve under its the direction of the council. The
director of legislative administrative services may be removed from office
by a vote of five (5) members of the legislative coordinating council taken
at any regular meeting of such council. The director of legislative
administrative services shall receive such compensation as is determined
by the legislative coordinating council. Such director, and any of such
director's assistants specified by the legislative coordinating council, shall
receive expenses and allowances for in-state and out-of-state travel as is
provided by law for members of the legislature. Such director shall appoint
such assistants and employees of the division of legislative administrative
services as are authorized by the legislative coordinating council and shall
set their compensation subject to the approval of such council. Such
director and all assistants and employees of the division of legislative
administrative services shall be in the unclassified service.
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(b) The division of legislative administrative services shall provide
administrative staff services to and for the elected officers and the majority
and minority leaders of the house of representatives and the senate and for
the legislative branch, as directed by the legislative coordinating council,
by performing the following functions:
(1) Acquiring legislative equipment, facilities and supplies.
(2) Administering the personnel documents and records of members
of the legislature and employees of the legislative branch, except officers
and employees of the legislative research department, office of revisor of
statutes, division of post audit and such other legislative commissions as
may be specifically excepted herefrom by law.
(3) Recruiting and supervising personnel for administrative and
secretarial duties as specified by the legislative coordinating council.
(4) Prepare minutes of each special committee, select committee,
joint committee and standing committee meeting, whether the legislature
is in session or not in session, to show attendance of members of the
legislature, disposition of agenda items, tentative and final committee
decisions and staff instructions and such other matters as may be helpful
to the work of the committee.
(5) Working with the legislative research department to provide
notices in appropriate detail of legislative study committee meetings and
such other matters as are directed by the legislative coordinating council.
(5)(6) Performing such other duties as directed by the legislative
coordinating council.
Sec. 3. K.S.A. 46-1210 and 46-1212a are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
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